This is random. Did I tell you about my bin? As in garbage bin. I know I need to write in many dialects here.

Anyway, my bin.. It's the blue bin actually. Thats for all the household rubbish that can't go in the yellow recycle bin or green garden waste bin. So I have three bins. I only use two as there is no garden here .. Although curiously I do have a green bin . It's taken me about a month to half fill the yellow bin. But I digress.. The blue bin.

There are ten flats/ units/ apartments in my block. It's a normal sized block so you can imagine that bin collection day is a bit of a free for all to get the things lined up on the side if the road so they can be emptied. Actually the green and yellows are alternate weeks. The blue is every week.

So some fucker has been putting their rubbish / garbage/ trash in my bin. And it gets full by about Tuesday and bin collection is on Monday. First I thought I had id'd the culprit. Single white female with purple bin bags. I saw her taking them out and then lo and behold my bin is overflowing with purple bin bags. Then the bin is mysteriously put out for me on Sunday night but by Wednesday still hasn't been brought in. In fact its lying forlornly on its side on the pavement/ sidewalk. So I bring it in. Three hours later it's got more bags in it. White ones this time. And some trashed mail. Aha.. A lead .. Hmmm flat 6.. Indian couple.. Not much of a lead.. I often dump junk mail in the nearest available bin. Not quite the same as the volume my bin is being subjected to.

I'm thinking of a sting operation. Or retaliation. Defintitely going to spray paint a skull on the lid. These people are nuts.

This is random. Did I tell you about my bin? As in garbage bin. I know I need to write in many dialects here.

Anyway, my bin.. It's the blue bin actually. Thats for all the household rubbish that can't go in the yellow recycle bin or green garden waste bin. So I have three bins. I only use two as there is no garden here .. Although curiously I do have a green bin . It's taken me about a month to half fill the yellow bin. But I digress.. The blue bin.

There are ten flats/ units/ apartments in my block. It's a normal sized block so you can imagine that bin collection day is a bit of a free for all to get the things lined up on the side if the road so they can be emptied. Actually the green and yellows are alternate weeks. The blue is every week.

So some fucker has been putting their rubbish / garbage/ trash in my bin. And it gets full by about Tuesday and bin collection is on Monday. First I thought I had id'd the culprit. Single white female with purple bin bags. I saw her taking them out and then lo and behold my bin is overflowing with purple bin bags. Then the bin is mysteriously put out for me on Sunday night but by Wednesday still hasn't been brought in. In fact its lying forlornly on its side on the pavement/ sidewalk. So I bring it in. Three hours later it's got more bags in it. White ones this time. And some trashed mail. Aha.. A lead .. Hmmm flat 6.. Indian couple.. Not much of a lead.. I often dump junk mail in the nearest available bin. Not quite the same as the volume my bin is being subjected to.

I'm thinking of a sting operation. Or retaliation. Defintitely going to spray paint a skull on the lid. These people are nuts.

This happened to us once years ago. There were these trash can sheds out by the carports, scattered through the complex. When we got to the bottom of it, we learned that the person filling up our trash can thought it was her trash can. It was sorted with minimal fuss.

a spray painted skull might do the trick!

borealis

2nd June 2012 07:51 PM

Hmm. We have blue bags for recyclables, green bags for garbage, papers/magazines go out in a plastic grocery bag, and we have big green municipality-issued compost bins into which all organics, including veg, meat, fish, edible oil, boxboard (think cereal boxes), small amounts of garden waste must be put. They each have a computer chip which links that compost bin to the municipal address.

Biggest problem out here is black bears in early spring. They like meaty fishy oily compost.

borealis

2nd June 2012 10:23 PM

I'm singing and playing one song solo this evening, three others with my group. It'll only be 80 to 100 local people in the audience, it's just a benefit show for someone, so why am I as usual all freaked out about soloing? :hair:

MSG

2nd June 2012 11:47 PM

what style of singing?

Gonzo

3rd June 2012 01:18 AM

It's interesting to cashier... people come through the line... some very happy, some very impatient and angry, some quite obviously poor, some obviously doing quite well for themselves, some young and crazy, some old and senile, some distressed and not doing so well...

I suppose if you do it long enough the emotion turns to: eh, just people. Fuck 'em all, but I find it kind of therapeutic.

Gonzo

3rd June 2012 01:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by borealis
(Post 46635)

I'm singing and playing one song solo this evening, three others with my group. It'll only be 80 to 100 local people in the audience, it's just a benefit show for someone, so why am I as usual all freaked out about soloing? :hair:

What song?

Doing a solo takes courage, good luck!

borealis

3rd June 2012 03:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MSG
(Post 46651)

what style of singing?

Song was Wild Goose by Wade Hemsworth, Canadian songwriter who mostly wrote about Northern Ontario wilderness in the forties. There's a vid of him singing it online, but I've completely rearranged it until it's not even the same tune.

So a folk song, chords Am, D, Dm, F, G, C.

borealis

3rd June 2012 03:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gonzo
(Post 46664)

Quote:

Originally Posted by borealis
(Post 46635)

I'm singing and playing one song solo this evening, three others with my group. It'll only be 80 to 100 local people in the audience, it's just a benefit show for someone, so why am I as usual all freaked out about soloing? :hair:

What song?

Doing a solo takes courage, good luck!

See above. :)

And it went really well, I got a lot of ego boosting compliments, including from several local musicians I really respect. :yes:

But o man I was so nervous I could barely find the first chord.

MSG

3rd June 2012 03:41 AM

hippie folk music. figures...

[:hehe:]

borealis

3rd June 2012 03:43 AM

Worse: really really old hippie folk music!

You should hear me sing Omie Wise. :grin:

nostrum

3rd June 2012 06:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oblivion
(Post 46629)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magicziggy
(Post 46605)

This is random. Did I tell you about my bin? As in garbage bin. I know I need to write in many dialects here.

Anyway, my bin.. It's the blue bin actually. Thats for all the household rubbish that can't go in the yellow recycle bin or green garden waste bin. So I have three bins. I only use two as there is no garden here .. Although curiously I do have a green bin . It's taken me about a month to half fill the yellow bin. But I digress.. The blue bin.

There are ten flats/ units/ apartments in my block. It's a normal sized block so you can imagine that bin collection day is a bit of a free for all to get the things lined up on the side if the road so they can be emptied. Actually the green and yellows are alternate weeks. The blue is every week.

So some fucker has been putting their rubbish / garbage/ trash in my bin. And it gets full by about Tuesday and bin collection is on Monday. First I thought I had id'd the culprit. Single white female with purple bin bags. I saw her taking them out and then lo and behold my bin is overflowing with purple bin bags. Then the bin is mysteriously put out for me on Sunday night but by Wednesday still hasn't been brought in. In fact its lying forlornly on its side on the pavement/ sidewalk. So I bring it in. Three hours later it's got more bags in it. White ones this time. And some trashed mail. Aha.. A lead .. Hmmm flat 6.. Indian couple.. Not much of a lead.. I often dump junk mail in the nearest available bin. Not quite the same as the volume my bin is being subjected to.

I'm thinking of a sting operation. Or retaliation. Defintitely going to spray paint a skull on the lid. These people are nuts.

This happened to us once years ago. There were these trash can sheds out by the carports, scattered through the complex. When we got to the bottom of it, we learned that the person filling up our trash can thought it was her trash can. It was sorted with minimal fuss.

a spray painted skull might do the trick!

fashion a lock for it. I know what these apartment dweller types are like. Now it's purple bags, next week it'll be body parts, you mark my works

I am of the nature to grow old.
There is no way to escape growing old.
I am of the nature to have ill heath.
There is no way to escape having ill health.
I am of the nature to die.
There is no way to escape death.
All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature of change. There is no way to escape being separated from them.
My deeds are my closest companions.
I am the beneficiary of my deeds.
My deeds are the ground on which I stand.

Raven, our dog did that and worse to a friend's house. We left her there while we went skiing for a couple hours. She likely would have been fine, she normally was. But she wandered into their small bathroom, and managed to half close the door, upon which an ironing board behind it fell over, opening up as it came down effectively locking her in the bathroom. She chewed a leg off the ironing board, then she ate the bottom out of the pine door to get out. But not before PANIC had set in and caused her to tear that bathroom up.

It was awful.

nostrum

17th June 2012 05:57 AM

I used to have two weimaraners. I left them inside for a few hours while I went to my mum's for dinner (it was bitterly cold out). When I got home one of them had eaten through the entire arm of the couch. Bits of stuffing everywhere. Of course, my silly dog had forgotten what she'd done so I couldn't get mad with her.

This is random. Did I tell you about my bin? As in garbage bin. I know I need to write in many dialects here.

Anyway, my bin.. It's the blue bin actually. Thats for all the household rubbish that can't go in the yellow recycle bin or green garden waste bin. So I have three bins. I only use two as there is no garden here .. Although curiously I do have a green bin . It's taken me about a month to half fill the yellow bin. But I digress.. The blue bin.

There are ten flats/ units/ apartments in my block. It's a normal sized block so you can imagine that bin collection day is a bit of a free for all to get the things lined up on the side if the road so they can be emptied. Actually the green and yellows are alternate weeks. The blue is every week.

So some fucker has been putting their rubbish / garbage/ trash in my bin. And it gets full by about Tuesday and bin collection is on Monday. First I thought I had id'd the culprit. Single white female with purple bin bags. I saw her taking them out and then lo and behold my bin is overflowing with purple bin bags. Then the bin is mysteriously put out for me on Sunday night but by Wednesday still hasn't been brought in. In fact its lying forlornly on its side on the pavement/ sidewalk. So I bring it in. Three hours later it's got more bags in it. White ones this time. And some trashed mail. Aha.. A lead .. Hmmm flat 6.. Indian couple.. Not much of a lead.. I often dump junk mail in the nearest available bin. Not quite the same as the volume my bin is being subjected to.

I'm thinking of a sting operation. Or retaliation. Defintitely going to spray paint a skull on the lid. These people are nuts.

Further to this.

I don't have much to recycle so it takes a fair while to fill the recycle bin. After two months I finally put it out on Sunday night ready for the early Monday morning collection. Some fucker in a gold 4wd has parked alongside my bin. I mean of all the street he chooses my bin and of course the bin is now full and it's two weeks till the next collection [/rant]

oblivion

19th June 2012 03:03 PM

maybe you can accidentally borrow someone else's recycle bin for a couple weeks!

Magicziggy

19th June 2012 03:07 PM

Don't be so bloody sensible. This is war I tell you. The 4wd was gold for christ sake.

Don't be so bloody sensible. This is war I tell you. The 4wd was gold for christ sake.

Is the car door unlocked? You could put your recyclables in the back seat!

Magicziggy

19th June 2012 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oblivion
(Post 49297)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magicziggy
(Post 49295)

Don't be so bloody sensible. This is war I tell you. The 4wd was gold for christ sake.

Is the car door unlocked? You could put your recyclables in the back seat!

Oh it's gone now. And talking of locked car doors.. I locked my car keys in the car for the second time in a week this evening. First time was at work and it cost me $200 to join the RAA so the guy could fail to attempt to break in through the quarter light because the quarter light was in fact unlocked.

oblivion

19th June 2012 03:20 PM

I had to google "quarter light" to be sure. I've never heard the vent window called "quarter light", but from the context I was almost sure that's what you meant.

Magicziggy

19th June 2012 03:23 PM

I was sure was speaking American slang.

Bobby Arthur

19th June 2012 04:16 PM

:no:

borealis

19th June 2012 04:42 PM

Not even Canadian slang. Sounds like a term from the forties, long ago discarded.

Bobby Arthur

19th June 2012 05:07 PM

Considering the last car sold in the US that actually had those was the Yugo, I don't know why you'd think that was American slang...

What the hell do you drive Ziggy?

Magicziggy

19th June 2012 05:26 PM

This song suddenly woke me up in my sleep. I had to post it. And if you can't be bothered with the whole thing, it's at around about 1:00 in.

I drive a 2000 hilux.

Bobby Arthur

19th June 2012 05:47 PM

Had to google that too. They haven't called it a Hilux in North America since the 70s.

MondoVman

20th June 2012 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magicziggy
(Post 49292)

I don't have much to recycle ...
it takes a fair while to fill the recycle bin ...
the bin is now full ...
it's two weeks till the next collection [/rant]

Too funny! : frivolous rant denied :

Magicziggy

20th June 2012 03:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MondoVman
(Post 49322)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magicziggy
(Post 49292)

I don't have much to recycle ...
it takes a fair while to fill the recycle bin ...
the bin is now full ...
it's two weeks till the next collection [/rant]

Too funny! : frivolous rant denied :

I've decided on a different tack having dreamed bins and quarterlights all night.

The only contact I've ever had with one of my neighbours is when I rammed into one of their cars in the car park. The Hilux is good for some things, and making the most of minor contact is one of them.

I don't know any of the other occupants of the ten flats. We are like our bins. A randomly strewn chaotic mess.

Watch this space.

Magicziggy

20th June 2012 03:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bobby Arthur
(Post 49314)

Had to google that too. They haven't called it a Hilux in North America since the 70s.

What the hell is with you Americans. We rely on you to let us know when the English language changes.

You have KFC, right? Aussies don't like to waste time on words when letters will do.

That was up Newcastle way, they had a mega storm about 2 hours ago and about 1 hour ago it hit us.

oblivion

28th June 2012 09:03 PM

whoa. hope it's not quite so torrential in your neck of the woods

Facetious

28th June 2012 09:15 PM

We were out at a restaurant when it hit and it was pretty bad for about 30 minutes but it passed us by quickly. I think the storm dumped most of its load on Newcastle.

I'm waiting for news on my brother, he has been in contact with his wife recently. He gave a co-worker a lift home because of the rain but now he's stuck in gridlocked traffic, there are massive floods on the road he's on and he can't go anywhere.

Wishing I could post pics of the kilometres of empty beach under crystal blue sky I'm suffering under.

I just took photos of a baby echidna some kids found in the holiday village. The beach stone-curlews are resting on the ground a few metres from where I write.

charlou

2nd July 2012 05:30 AM

sure sux to be you, msg ... I'm living high on the hog here in an ice box apartment, the kids having luxuriated in the last of the hot water for the day ...But, just as I begin to feel I should not gloat too much, here comes the sunshine, rearing it's ugly head through the grey sky to ruin my day. :mad:

MSG

2nd July 2012 05:41 AM

Also I just saw a spangled drongo.

Magicziggy

2nd July 2012 06:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by charlou
(Post 50188)

sure sux to be you, msg ... I'm living high on the hog here in an ice box apartment, the kids having luxuriated in the last of the hot water for the day ...But, just as I begin to feel I should not gloat too much, here comes the sunshine, rearing it's ugly head through the grey sky to ruin my day. :mad:

We have one of those in our earthquake kit. No power outlet required. Just plug in the phone jack and it works.

borealis

5th July 2012 07:13 PM

We have a more modern version that works the same way. It has the electric bells and whistles but works fine without power - just don't get call display and all that fancy stuff.

Bobby Arthur

5th July 2012 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oblivion
(Post 50687)

We have one of those in our earthquake kit. No power outlet required. Just plug in the phone jack and it works.

Assuming you still pay for traditional land line service. VOIP doesn't count.

oblivion

5th July 2012 09:15 PM

That sounds like a nice compromise! We hardly ever lose power - maybe once every 3-4 years for a couple hours. When we have to replace our bells and whistles, I'll see what sorts of phones can operate with and without power.

oblivion

5th July 2012 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bobby Arthur
(Post 50695)

Quote:

Originally Posted by oblivion
(Post 50687)

We have one of those in our earthquake kit. No power outlet required. Just plug in the phone jack and it works.

Assuming you still pay for traditional land line service. VOIP doesn't count.

We have both. VOIP for my dh's work-from-home. Land line for family/personal.

And 4 freaking smartphones. If it weren't for earthquakes, I'd ditch the land line.

VOIP was very convenient this last month. DH went to Florida to help with his family (his father's being treated for lymphoma), and has been able to work from there seamlessly. It would be easy enough to forward calls and what not, but still.

Just read the first chapter of member's well-written and entertaining fictional work.

Think it deserves addition to the Original Arts forum. Also think it the author's choice to do so.

A few hints of author's identity in hopes someone can guess who it is or the author takes note of this post:
1. Author hasn't posted since April 6, 2012.
2. Is a student
3. Lives in Canada

4. An excerpt from the work

Quote:

He would latch onto some poorly articulated idea and frantically peddle it. Usually people ignored him, and the people who didn't usually just mocked him.

oblivion

10th July 2012 02:40 AM

That's about when Fuzzy started his long and hopefully not permanent vacation from several sites, including MR.

MondoVman

10th July 2012 04:57 AM

Yep, you guessed right about Fuzzy!
Your recent link to the Freedom of Expression thread and therein Fuzzy's link to his nanowrimo effort, was my good fortune for today.
(I was reminded, i.e. finally took note, in succeeding posts that others had already read Fuzzy's delightful work. I say "reminded" because I think today's my 3rd or 4th read through the thread.)

I went to buy a glass lid for my fish tank today. I'm setting it up again after a period of disuse. One of the cats had fallen through the previous lid. There's no fish at the moment. Anyway, I asked about buying a lid at one of the local pet stores. But no, I can't by a lid because the suppliers are in dispute with each other and have stopped production altogether. I mean, this is two guys running a business, supplying Adelaide with aquariums and they are having an argument.

Anybody else keep fish? It's only a small 60L tank. What sort of tropicals would be good together?

Jerome

11th July 2012 02:30 PM

african cichlids

gib

11th July 2012 04:17 PM

MZ if i were you i'd go for something that isn't going to require a lot of maintenance in the long run. This is a 2 ft x 1ft x 1ft tank i take it?

i assume you got a filter in there. What is your tap water like? Do you have any experience with growing aquarium plants? Does it have lights?

gib

11th July 2012 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jerome
(Post 52648)

african cichlids

60L is about 15 US gallons, way too small for a cichlid tank

Mantisdreamz

11th July 2012 10:07 PM

MZ, awhile back when i had a tank, i had yellow gouramis (which are great fish - they're pretty aware of humans, so will come up to the tank to gaze at you), There were tiger barbs. Although i was just looking at a site and it said they tend to be fin nippers. I never had this problem though, there were about 5-6 in the tank, and actually they were often breeding. so there was generally a cycle.. if 1 of the older ones died, there was always about 3 babies to replace it. (And the babies are pretty cute).

I think there were some zebrafish as well.

and silver dollars (but, i don't recommend them). The ones i had were really squirrely.

It's a two foot tank. For years the kids kept goldfish in it. When the lid broke, they started to jump out. Anyway eventually they all died. Funny story was that one day I found a dead goldfish in the living room. On closer inspection it wasnt one of ours as it had white and black colouring. On even closer inspection it wasnt dead. So i put it in the tank and sure enough it started to swim around. That was the last fish to die. One of the cats must have brought it in from a neighbours pond. I thought about attaching flyers to lamp posts to find the owner.

So I've bought a heater and am aging it and should be fish ready in a week. Am interested in putting fish that will be compatible and friendly and interesting.

SR71

11th July 2012 11:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MondoVman
(Post 51959)

Just read the first chapter of member's well-written and entertaining fictional work.

Think it deserves addition to the Original Arts forum. Also think it the author's choice to do so.

A few hints of author's identity in hopes someone can guess who it is or the author takes note of this post:
1. Author hasn't posted since April 6, 2012.
2. Is a student
3. Lives in Canada

4. An excerpt from the work

Quote:

He would latch onto some poorly articulated idea and frantically peddle it. Usually people ignored him, and the people who didn't usually just mocked him.

This may be davidm at ff, or dave something or other over there. Sounds like him, he writes. well.

^ If you were going for dry humor, then yes. Nothing wet directly sighted there.

Otherwise, gib's intro implied something fishy to look at:

Quote:

Originally Posted by gib
(Post 52677)

just looking up some ideas for MZ, some of these setups are dreamy:

oblivion

12th July 2012 05:04 AM

The site has a bandwidth protector on. Those aren't the images gib was trying to link to.

charlou

12th July 2012 05:52 AM

mondo, I mean click on the gif in the quote .. I linked it to the site the gif comes from, presumably that's where gib wanted to link to.

Is that it, gib?

Mantisdreamz

12th July 2012 06:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magicziggy
(Post 52695)

It's a two foot tank. For years the kids kept goldfish in it. When the lid broke, they started to jump out. Anyway eventually they all died. Funny story was that one day I found a dead goldfish in the living room. On closer inspection it wasnt one of ours as it had white and black colouring. On even closer inspection it wasnt dead. So i put it in the tank and sure enough it started to swim around. That was the last fish to die. One of the cats must have brought it in from a neighbours pond. I thought about attaching flyers to lamp posts to find the owner.

So I've bought a heater and am aging it and should be fish ready in a week. Am interested in putting fish that will be compatible and friendly and interesting.

gouramis. honestly MZ. just get several variations of them. hardy fish and sweet (for a fish!!)

if you place your finger up to the tank, they will take their feelers and press it up to the other side of where your finger is. so cute.

your funny stories about dead fish on the living room floors. ...are actually nightmares for me. For some reason, i used to at least (not lately) have nightmares of some fish tank exploding and then seeing a bunch of fish on the carpet flopping around.

Then on the "Index of /2008/Medium" page,
Click the 329.jpg link.
Click the 327.jpg link.

Courtesy of MondoVman Pro 3.7

MondoVman

12th July 2012 06:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mantisdreamz
(Post 52884)

your funny stories about dead fish on the living room floors. ...are actually nightmares for me. For some reason, i used to at least (not lately) have nightmares of some fish tank exploding and then seeing a bunch of fish on the carpet flopping around.

roflol, your nightmares filet me.

Magicziggy

12th July 2012 10:40 AM

@mantis

I'd better not tell about the time I was cleaning the turtle tank out and dropped poor Dribble down the side, wedging him between glass and the wall. His little flippers desperately trying to gain purchase. His pathetic prehistoric face expressing 'you bastard' the way that only turtles know how.

No, I won't tell you about that.

Adenosine

12th July 2012 10:58 AM

fish = pointless pets

Neither party gets anything from the deal that you can't get from a screensaver or the fish from it's natural habitat.

Magicziggy

12th July 2012 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adenosine
(Post 52988)

fish = pointless pets

Neither party gets anything from the deal that you can't get from a screensaver or the fish from it's natural habitat.

My son used to watch them at night from his bed. He said it helped him feel calm.

Adenosine

12th July 2012 11:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magicziggy
(Post 52992)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adenosine
(Post 52988)

fish = pointless pets

Neither party gets anything from the deal that you can't get from a screensaver or the fish from it's natural habitat.

My son used to watch them at night from his bed. He said it helped him feel calm.

:P

MSG

12th July 2012 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adenosine
(Post 52988)

fish = pointless pets

Neither party gets anything from the deal that you can't get from a screensaver or the fish from it's natural habitat.

Heh! Every night when Channel 31, the community TV station in Melbourne, used to go off air its overnight screensaver was a continuous live feed of the station fish tank.

Quite mesmerizing at 3 AM...

Magicziggy

13th July 2012 02:53 AM

copy/paste from campervan hire site.

Quote:

*Disclaimer: although there may be enough room to swing a cat bringing pets is not allowed nor is it considered good practise to swing cats as they may scratch your face off.

:grin:

MondoVman

13th July 2012 04:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magicziggy
(Post 52981)

@mantis

I'd better not tell about the time I was cleaning the turtle tank out and dropped poor Dribble down the side, wedging him between glass and the wall. His little flippers desperately trying to gain purchase. His pathetic prehistoric face expressing 'you bastard' the way that only turtles know how.

No, I won't tell you about that.

+1. Candidate for the "How Not To" thread? (or not)

MondoVman

13th July 2012 05:37 AM

"Let A Guest Post" mini-game/button

Akin to "single shot-ness" in Mafia, experiencing a brain flash about having a "Let A Guest Post" button on posts - a time-limited, single, first-come-first-use comment by a guest.
1. Member makes a post.
2. Presses the "Let A Guest Post" button (during initial post editing or up to 5 min.s after)
3. First guest to click his "Hey, I Wanna Post" button (now enabled) gets to post.

- Advertise this in big letters for guest readers (like MSG) to more easily grasp (grok)!

MondoVman

14th July 2012 01:17 AM

Friday 13 July 2012
Dear Diary,
Enjoying the forum much more since everyone (you know who you are) stopped their self-imposed obsessions over starting/not starting 2+ threads per day, posting/not posting some minimum posts per day.
Yours, etc. Personna-in-training,
MV

I'd better not tell about the time I was cleaning the turtle tank out and dropped poor Dribble down the side, wedging him between glass and the wall. His little flippers desperately trying to gain purchase. His pathetic prehistoric face expressing 'you bastard' the way that only turtles know how.

No, I won't tell you about that.

:stare:

just terrible MZ, how could you.

Mantisdreamz

16th July 2012 06:38 AM

My mom had a bit of a birthday party tonight (she turned 66). I was there, with her neighbor friends, all of the same relative age as her. And at some point, the conversation turns into chat about uteruses. Who still has their full uterus, who has a partial, who has none left... which then led to arguing over the advantages/disadvantages of hysterectomies. :noo:

This had led me to conclude that i really need to meet people my age around this area.

Adenosine

16th July 2012 06:54 AM

How soon afterwards was the prune juice broken out?

Mantisdreamz

16th July 2012 09:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adenosine
(Post 53668)

How soon afterwards was the prune juice broken out?

It's not that i mind chat about hysterectomies, but arguing about it for an hour is a bit too much.

I think the prune juice figuratively broke out when the ladies started talking over each other on the topic.

My sister had a tank with goldfish (or something), and they named the fish after the family members. Once, when the two little girls were about seven and five, the little one came running into the kitchen all distraught, sobbing and yelling: "(Older sister and fish's name) is deeeaaaddd!"

The neighbour lady who was visiting over a cup of coffee almost had a stroke.

I think it was in for only like 3 minutes but the whole clinic smelled like charred towel afterwards.

nostrum

20th July 2012 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Amok
(Post 53987)

Magicziggy's flopping fish story reminded me of this:

My sister had a tank with goldfish (or something), and they named the fish after the family members. Once, when the two little girls were about seven and five, the little one came running into the kitchen all distraught, sobbing and yelling: "(Older sister and fish's name) is deeeaaaddd!"

The neighbour lady who was visiting over a cup of coffee almost had a stroke.

:rofl: that is a good one!

nostrum

20th July 2012 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by divagreen
(Post 54074)

Quote:

Originally Posted by ericv00
(Post 53953)

Whoa! How long did you zap it for?!

I think it was in for only like 3 minutes but the whole clinic smelled like charred towel afterwards.

LOL. "Katzenmilch", because the ave. ESL student doesn't learn any four-letter words ("milk") before year 2.

Bobby Arthur

27th July 2012 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by borealis
(Post 54142)

It was more likely the spandex and lycra bits that melted. Although why you would stick a bra in the microwave in the first place is boggling. Really cold day?

Kill a yeast infection?

Bobby Arthur

27th July 2012 09:12 PM

So at what point do I start beating my child?

When I was taking a nap she got into my wife's vanity and dumped out about $200 worth of product.

She also dumped out a $40 bottle of dog/mange shampoo.

She locks the cat in the closet.

She does this kind of stuff repeatedly. She knows she's not supposed to, she does it when we're not watching.

We've talked to her, put her in timeout, taken away TV/video games. Beating is the next step, right?

borealis

27th July 2012 09:12 PM

On your boobs? :stare:

^ to post195.

dammit Bobby.

borealis

27th July 2012 09:14 PM

How old is she? Sounds like two. Or three.

Bobby Arthur

27th July 2012 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by borealis
(Post 56093)

On your boobs? :stare:

^ to post195.

dammit Bobby.

It was a joke, but can Oral-Thrush transfer from a nursing baby?

Bobby Arthur

27th July 2012 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by borealis
(Post 56094)

How old is she? Sounds like two. Or three.

7, almost 8. But developmentally delayed.

borealis

27th July 2012 09:21 PM

The dumping stuff out thing sounds like she just really likes dumping stuff out. So much it's worth the consequences.

Locking the cat in the closet is a little disturbing - is she able to tell you/give you an idea why she thinks that's a good plan?

Bobby Arthur

27th July 2012 09:40 PM

No. She also puts the dog in her kennel for fun. We do kennel the dog at night, and sometime while we're eating (if she's misbehavinig (the dog)), but for some reason it's fun or funny to put the dog in the kennel at other times.

Actually she's occasionally put both the dog and the cat in the kennel together. That is funny, but I don't think the cat likes it too much.